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Star Trek Discovery S4, Episode 6: Space is loud!
Remember: Black Alert is when all the blue lights come on.
Burnham opens the episode “thinking about family” as she builds a family tree and we get reminded of all the idiocy that happened in the first three seasons.
Burnham is determined to fly into the wake of the DMA and it all goes to hell. Their little Wall-E droid disintegrates, which is a nice touch. Grey and the now-sentient computer do some shit, I dunno, it’s boring. The ship gets lost, forcing Book to use the sporedrive. But — oh shit! — it doesn’t work! Book starts hallucinating, I dunno, it’s boring. It’s crazy how boring they’ve made Book and his whole story.
I’ll give the show credit for one thing: they’ve embraced giving bridge officers roles. In previous seasons, Burnham herself would have been running the scans, doing the math, and coming up with the solutions. It took them a while, but they’re finally dividing the labor and a Frakes signature is the “switching between bridge officers” shots.
The ship starts disintegrating too, and there’s an unnecessarily brutal death of a gold shirt. The computer is a thing now and what the actual fuck is going on? Saru gives a speech about winning the day. He’s by far the better captain and making Burnham captain was always a mistake. Speaking of, she’s over in her ready room…
